Kohate is a 2020 Puzzle Platformer game with Scifi Horror and Cyberpunk themes.
In the future, humanity has began colonizing the galaxy. Due to the scale involved, this makes it impossible for any government to maintain rule of law, so private industry gets involved. Since more prisoners equals more profit for the corporations running the prison industry, massive numbers of new laws are made and draconianly enforced.
Which brings us to you. Charged with littering and walking too slowly while crossing the street, you've been auctioned off to MegaCorp Biomass as a human lab rat. Solve puzzles while being chased around the laboratory by a genetically modified monstrosity.
Tropes:
- And I Must Scream: One of the processing nodes keeps whispering 'please'.
- Dystopia
- Evil, Inc.: Biomass.
- Eye Scream: The processing nodes have 'redundant' organs removed to allow for a more direct connection with the nervous system.
- Failure Is the Only Option: There are three possible endings. Being converted into a processing node, being mutated into the the next monster or being jettisoned from the facility.
- Heroic Mime: Justified, you had a gag applied during the auction at the start of the game and it never gets removed.
- Human Resources: Biomass repurposes brains as computers.
- Super-Soldier: The monster was intended as equal parts this and Bioweapon Beast.
- Techno Dystopia
- Was Once a Man: The monster. And in one of the endings, you become a second monster.
- Wetware CPU: All over the place. In one of the game's endings, you get turned into one.
